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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: Reprod Toxicol. 2010 Jan 22;29(3):298–305. doi: 10.1016/j.reprotox.2010.01.003

Table 2.

Distribution of metals concentrations measured on the day of oocyte collection in female patients and their male partners; the Study of Metals and Assisted Reproductive Technology (SMART).

Metals n Mean SD Min 25th %tile Median 75th %tile Max %>LOD
Female patients
 Blood mercury (μg/L) 50 3.07 1.95 0.28 1.69 2.85 3.90 8.77 100.0
 Urine cadmium (μg/g creatinine) 55 0.30 0.17 0.04 0.16 0.30 0.40 0.98 94.8
 Blood lead (μg/dL) 27 0.82 0.32 0.34 0.55 0.77 1.05 1.50 100.0
Male partners
 Blood mercury (μg/L) 33 4.34 3.15 0.57 2.05 4.15 5.37 17.40 100.0
 Urine cadmium (μg/g creatinine) 36 0.15 0.11 −0.07 a 0.10 0.13 0.18 0.51 55.2
 Blood lead (μg/dL) 16 1.50 0.80 0.55 0.99 1.32 1.93 3.67 100.0
a

Negative value due to no censoring of values below the LOD.

ICSI, intracytoplasmic sperm injection; LOD, limit of detection; Max, maximum value; Min, minimum value; SD, standard deviation.